A history of colic in infancy does not appear to predict functional gastrointestinal disorders or behavioral problems in adolescents, researchers in the Netherlands have found.
The new study evaluated a group of adolescents for whom a history of infant colic had been established in a randomized controlled trial. That study, which was negative, tested swaddling as a treatment for infant colic. It enrolled 376 infants who met objective criteria for excessive crying. Of these infants, 221 were